Thomas W. Many

Thomas W. Many, EdD, is an educational consultant who works with teachers, administrators, school boards, parents, and other education stakeholders on organizational leadership, implementation and change, and Professional Learning Communities at Work™ (PLC at Work) strategies and concepts. His career in K–12 education spans multiple roles, including classroom teacher, learning center director, curriculum supervisor, principal, assistant superintendent, and more than twenty years as a school district superintendent, notably in Kildeer Countryside Community Consolidated School District 96 in Illinois.

He is a coauthor of Concise Answers to Frequently Asked Questions About Professional Learning Communities at Work™, a companion resource to Learning by Doing: A Handbook for Professional Learning Communities at Work®, in which he also contributes as an author focused on implementing the PLC process. Many is additionally a coauthor of Amplify Your Impact: Coaching Collaborative Teams in PLCs at Work™ and subsequent coaching-focused resources such as How Schools Thrive: Building a Coaching Culture for Collaborative Teams in PLCs at Work® and Energize Your Teams: Powerful Tools for Coaching Collaborative Teams in PLCs at Work®, which offer practical frameworks and tools for coaching collaborative educator teams.